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can someone please throw a light on the framework used behind the UI of Google docs or sheets? Is it opensource?



It's Google's proprietary code. Google Docs is too unique, complex and valuable to use any typical opensource UI framework.


Actually, Google Docs was (and possibly still is) built on Google Web Toolkit (http://www.gwtproject.org/)


I believe other apps like Microsoft office 365 word, Airtable, Quip, Smartsheet etc. - are very similar in frontend architecture to Google Sheets. So, I was looking if there's a common engine or approach to handle UI




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